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I thought data caps for home internet were a thing of the past…

I’ve somewhat recently moved back to a very rural area of the Midwest. Small town. No stop lights. Biggest businesses other than the bars are Casey’s, Subway, and Dollar General.

And we have one ISP (not counting DSL) — Mediacom. When we first signed up, I had to go with the second service tier. But not because of speeds, but so I could have a reasonable 1 TB/mo data cap.

Lucky me, they increased the cap to 1.5 TB. 🙄

I hope that in my lifetime I can see ISPs regulated as a public utility.

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[-] dataprolet@lemmy.dbzer0.com 144 points 1 year ago

In Switzerland you get unlimited 10 Gbit/s for 50 bucks.

[-] SpeakinTelnet@sh.itjust.works 88 points 1 year ago

I hate you, congrats!

In Canada we have to give our firstborn to a telecommunication monopoly for somewhat OK internet.

[-] Steeve@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 year ago

Somewhat OK internet on the infrastructure our taxes paid for and the government handed over to Bell and Rogers, but don't worry, they'll stop all the other evil corporations from coming in and giving us cheaper internet.

[-] Jmr@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago
[-] electriccars@startrek.website 15 points 1 year ago

WTF? 25gbps? Dang we really do have shitty internet in the States.

[-] smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 year ago

And /48 IPv6 subnet included! As it should be!

[-] kristoff@infosec.pub 4 points 1 year ago

A /48 is quite overkill for a home customer. Do you have 65536 LANs at home? Here in Belgium, we get a /56.

[-] Hexarei@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

They're just preparing for one day when you have your own personal swarm of nano bots

[-] StayFrosty@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Is it actually 10Gbit/s or just marketing? And how's the latency?

[-] Verdorrterpunkt@feddit.de 8 points 1 year ago

The latency for 1Gbit/s is amazing, and i seem to get that speed. But i really don't have the hardware for more anyways.

[-] Truaxe@feddit.nl 7 points 1 year ago

Yeah, but those are metric bits so they are a little bit smaller.

[-] 0xCAFE@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

And for 80$/month you can get 25Gbps!

[-] xusontha@ls.buckodr.ink 2 points 1 year ago

🔫 hand over the internet bill

[-] yoz@aussie.zone -1 points 1 year ago
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